Sea Quotes - Page 6

• Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Life, Blow, Wind

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• The ocean and I have many pebbles To find and wash off and roll into shape.

  William Stafford

  Ocean, Shapes, Pebbles

  William Stafford, Paul Merchant, Vincent Wixon (1998). “Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Adventure, Indulge In, Water

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• Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Water, Shapes, Sometimes

  Miyamoto Musashi (2013). “The Book of Five Rings - The Bestselling, Classic Samurai Guide to Strategy”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Art, Air

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• To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Beach, Ocean, Marine

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.220

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• I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beach, Ocean, Wave Of Life

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• To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

  Gertrude Ederle

  Beach, Children, Crazy

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• Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Keys, Heaven, Knows

  Jimmy Buffett, Savannah Jane Buffett (2006). “The Jolly Mon”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

  Hammond Innes

  Sailing, Nautical, Ships

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• And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

  Edward Gibbon

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Volume 6,

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• I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.

  David Anthony Durham

  Dream, Sleep

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• Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

  John Keats

  Weed, Dream, Mermaid

  John Keats, “The Eve Of St. Agnes”

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• It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Land, Trials

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• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.

  Alexander Smith

  Ocean, Complaining, Thousand

  Alexander Smith (1856). “Poems ... Third edition”, p.241

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• The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

  Joseph Conrad

  Power, Generosity, Quality

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  Van Morrison

  Beach, Ocean, Sky

  "Song: 'Into the Mystic'". 1970.

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• Bridget [Jones] was always, at heart, about the gap between how you feel you're expected to be and how you actually are and that gap has only widened. Young people now are entering an uncharted sea, where there's huge pressure to judge yourself on how many Likes or Followers you get on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, rather than the on important things like being kind, honest, resilient, funny and a good friend.

  Helen Fielding

  Heart, Good Friend, People

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Missing

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• Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Land, Salmon

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wine, Men, Alcohol

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• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baroness Orczy

  Heart, Sadness, Gay

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• People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book X, (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Lying, Character, Law

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